king of the castle

Chapter 195

Jade pendant indeed possesses the power of the forbidden magic domain, as the castle hub said. 【】And no matter whether it is carried on the body or put in the castle warehouse, the jade pendant can play the role of the forbidden magic field. The only difference is that the scope of action of the two is obviously different.If it is worn on the body, the effect range of the forbidden magic field is a circular area of ​​about three steps in radius, but if the jade pendant is placed in the castle warehouse, the effect range is only one step away.

In addition, Bonnie also found in an experiment that she could force her vindictiveness into the forbidden magic jade pendant, so that the scope of the forbidden magic field would be further expanded.With Bonnie's current strength, if she tried her best to force the fighting spirit into the jade pendant, the range of the forbidden magic field could be extended to an area of ​​seven or eight steps in radius.This made Roger involuntarily guess that if a legendary powerhouse came, the range of the forbidden magic domain would definitely be greater than the range of most magic.

"This is really a good thing!" Roger loved the jade pendant with a satisfied smile on his face.Originally, I just wanted to absorb some soul power when I returned to Earth, but I didn't expect such a big harvest.If this piece of jade pendant is put up for public auction, it will definitely get a fortune of astronomical figures.

But Roger was just thinking about it, and he would not be really stupid enough to sell such a good thing for money.It would not be an exaggeration to say that this jade pendant is an artifact. If it is really sold publicly, I don't know how much trouble it will cause.First of all, huge wealth will cause many people to covet it, and secondly, many people will definitely think that since Roger is willing to sell such a powerful artifact, he must have more than one of the same items in his hand.At that time, Roger will definitely attract the attention of various forces, large and small, in the entire Torenzo world, and he will stop thinking about living a peaceful life.

Getting this treasure, which can be called an artifact, naturally made Roger ecstatic, and he worked harder in the next few days of training than before.And Bonnie also became closer to Roger because he chose to share such a big secret with him, at least psychologically.

And because of what happened that night, Lisa became even more devoted to Roger.Perhaps stimulated by Roger's words "You are too young", the girl deliberately chose tighter clothes these days to say that while serving Roger attentively, she also feasted his eyes.This also reminded Roger of the idea of ​​preparing two sets of maid outfits for Lisa on Earth. When he thinks of the lovely girl wearing a maid outfit and calling herself "Master" respectfully, he can't help but feel complacent laughed out loud.

Of course, this is a secondary goal for Roger. The most important thing right now is to raise his strength to the bronze level as soon as possible.This is not an easy task. Although Roger trains hard in the training ground every day, he can't break through the last obstacle and successfully feel the fighting spirit in his body.

Without Dou Qi, one is not a bronze powerhouse. This has become Roger's biggest crisis right now.Roger is not a person who will give up his goal when encountering difficulties, so the training has become even harder. Every time he comes out of the training ground, he is as tired as a hunting dog chasing [-] rabbits, even molesting Anna and Lisa I don't have any strength left, I just want to climb into bed and have a good sleep.

The girl was very worried about Roger's behavior, and she couldn't help complaining to Anna, hoping that the daughter of the Duke would find a way to help Roger.In fact, Anna also cared about Roger very much, but Earl Pirk, the headmaster of the knight school, was a member of Vettel, and he wholeheartedly opposed the Duke of Hamilton. Anna interceded for Roger not only could not help him, but would only harm him.

The days passed day by day in this situation, and Roger's strength hadn't broken through to the bronze level, but the other exams of the knight school had already started one after another.

The first test is aristocratic etiquette, including court etiquette, dining etiquette, ball etiquette, and various ballroom dance steps, all of which must pass strict examinations.

Aristocratic etiquette is the strong point of those old noble families. These families often have hundreds or even nearly a thousand years of inheritance. They have received elite education from generation to generation. They can be picky in terms of etiquette. Etiquette expert.

Roger is a student taught by Anna himself. Although he has not reached the level of etiquette, it is not difficult to pass the exam.Whether it is the etiquette part or various dance steps, he can basically deal with it calmly, and successfully got qualified comments.

In the headmaster's office of the Knight School, a gloomy Pilker was looking at a report card on the table.The name on the report card was Roger Lee. Two of the four exam forms had already been filled in with results. One of the field trials was excellent, and the aristocratic etiquette was passed.

This made Pilk very dissatisfied, and he couldn't figure out how Roger passed these two exams.It's okay to say that Roger got an excellent comment in the field trial, after all, he escaped from the Lund Peninsula where undead creatures ravaged.But how did this country bumpkin, who had been in the capital for less than three months, pass the test of aristocratic etiquette?This was completely beyond the principal's expectation.

As one of Vettel's confidantes, Pirk also faintly sensed from the words of the Minister of Military Affairs that the killing of his nephew Stuka seemed to have a lot to do with Roger.This made the principal want to prevent Roger from passing the exam, and then find a chance to cooperate with Vettel to put him to death.

"Roger Lee, your luck is coming to an end." Pilker looked away from Roger's report card, fell on a roll of sheepskin on the table and muttered to himself, "I hope Jenson The scroll given is really as useful as he said."

Five days after the etiquette exam, the academic exam officially began, which was the last exam other than the strength test.Except for the last pass, the other exams were not difficult for Roger.On this day, he arrived at the knight school on time as usual, and walked into the hall dedicated to the exam without haste.

This hall is large enough to accommodate all the students of the school to take the exam at the same time, and it is said that there is a special magic circle in it, which can prevent students from cheating in the exam.However, after two rounds of examinations, [-]% of the students have been eliminated.So today the hall seemed a little empty, nearly half of the seats were vacant and no one was sitting.

Roger didn't care so much, he chose a table at random and sat down.Anyway, every exam question is different, even if you sit close to others, it is impossible to copy other people's answers, so there is no need to deliberately choose a seat.

As the exam time approached, all the students had arrived.The two teachers closed the door of the hall, and the magic lamps on each table automatically lit up, illuminating the hall very brightly.

"There are so many magic lamps, how many magic crystals will be consumed to light them at the same time." Looking at the bright magic lamps, Roger couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "These magic crystals must have been provided by the kingdom, so don't feel bad for using public funds! "

The teacher at the knight school didn't know that Roger was slandering him. An old man stood on the rostrum in front of the hall and said loudly: "The content of this year's exam is... translation scrolls. Each of you will get a scroll, as long as you translate the content on it Just make it a common word."

Hearing the old man's words, most of the students were secretly relieved.Compared with writing sonnets or reciting long passages of elf chants that are difficult to pronounce, translating words is relatively simple.After all, to translate words, you only need to translate the general meaning, as long as you can basically understand the content on the scroll.

Although Roger wasn't worried about studying for the exam, it was always good news that the difficulty was low, so he couldn't help but relax accordingly.Just as he was watching a few teachers handing out the scrolls with great interest, wondering what scroll he would get, he caught a glimpse of Pilk walking towards him in a hurry out of the corner of his eye.

"Roger Lee, you translate this scroll." Pilk put the scroll on Roger's desk, not hiding his gloating mood at all: "You are a transfer student of this year, and this is specially prepared for you."

Speaking of taking exams, the principal does have the right to designate exam questions for a student, as long as the topics are within the scope of the school's teaching.This rule was supposed to prevent students from colluding with teachers to cheat, but now it was used by Pilker against Roger.

Just seeing Pilk's malicious smile, Roger knew that this guy must be playing tricks on him, and he was quite sure of success.But Roger didn't want the other party to be too complacent, he just looked at the scroll on the table with an expression on his face, showing no emotion fluctuations on his face.

"How long can you be proud!" Pirk, who hoped to see Roger's panicked expression, was a little disappointed, and couldn't help cursing secretly in his heart.Seeing that all the students got the scrolls, he couldn't wait to shout loudly: "The exam has begun, open the scrolls now!"

Roger gently unfolded the very old scroll in front of him, and cursed in his heart at the first line: "Pirke, an old bastard, dare to test me with an ancient elf!"

The ancient elves are the words used by the elves in ancient times. After the third Hundred Clans War thousands of years ago, the elves were almost devastated, and most of the ancient elves were lost.Now even if you find an ordinary elf, I'm afraid you won't be able to read all the words on this scroll, let alone an ordinary human like Roger.Although the knight school also claims to have the "Ancient Elves" course, in fact, no one teaches it at all, but Pielke took out this scroll to rely on Roger, and it cannot be said that he violated the school's regulations. This guy's intentions are naturally very serious. Obvious.

"No, scrolls with ancient elves are very rare. How could this guy, Pilk, have such a scroll?" After Roger complained, he quickly thought of another question, and hurriedly searched the scrolls carefully.

This search was indeed found by Roger. There was a small seal at the end of the scroll, indicating that it was a collection of the Tower of the Mage in Mandos City.

This Magician's Tower is the branch of the Magician's Guild in Mandos City, not the Magician's Tower in Roger's Castle.Seeing this seal, Roger thought of a name, Jenson Button. If this guy hadn't played tricks on him, Pilk would never have gotten such a precious scroll.

"They all want to fight against me, right? Well, let you buddies do their best!" Roger secretly cheered himself up, then picked up a quill pen and began to write eloquently on the blank parchment prepared by the school.

On the corridor on the second floor of the examination hall, an old man in a magician's robe looked at Roger who was writing hard, his wise eyes were full of curiosity.Although there is not even a golden mark on the cuffs of his magician's robe, it seems that he is not as good as a magician's apprentice.But anyone with a little discernment would not despise this old man, because the self-confidence and calmness in him are definitely not something ordinary people can possess.

In fact, Barton, known as the "Genius of the Noble Mage", was standing respectfully behind the old man at this time. Although the two had been standing for a long time, he still did not show any sign of impatience.

Bebaton looked arrogant in front of most people, but he didn't dare to show the slightest presumptuousness in front of this person.Because this old man is none other than the president of the Thorne Kingdom Branch of the Magician's Guild, a senior magician known as a limited-access magister, and Master Vader who is also Mr. Barton!

Because he knew that Jenson wanted to borrow the ancient Elvish language scroll, which was said to be used for the exam of a certain knight school student, so Master Vader came to the exam site out of curiosity.The old mage wondered who made his favorite student hate him so much that he actually wanted to use the resources of the mage's tower against him.

After arriving at Roger, Wade was a little disappointed. In his eyes, this young man was very ordinary, and there was nothing outstanding about him.Vader originally planned to leave only after Roger opened the scroll and he had any reaction.But when the young man started to write on the parchment immediately, the magician decided to wait a little longer, did Roger really know these ancient elves, or was it just a bluff.

Roger had no idea that he had aroused Master Vader's interest, he just wanted to complete his translation work.Roger only touched the scroll on which the ancient elves were written each time, and then wrote lines of common characters without thinking, and the blank parchment was quickly filled by him.Compared with other students who have to think for a long time to write a line, Roger can translate the ancient elves much faster.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, the ancient elves are just some esoteric and difficult symbols, but for Roger, it is not a problem to accurately translate this word into a common one.Don't forget that Roger has inherited all the knowledge of the castle hub. When he encounters problems, he will choose to ask the castle hub directly.But at this time, Roger finally stopped being lazy, but directly found the memory of the ancient elves in his mind, and translated the content on the scroll as quickly as possible.

In fact, Jenson and Pilker teamed up to use the ancient elves to embarrass Roger. Not only did it not increase any difficulties for him, but it was also beneficial to Roger to a certain extent.After all, Castle Pivot has not walked in the world of Torenzo for hundreds of years. If Roger is tested with some new knowledge, he may not be able to answer it.

"Teacher, why are you so interested in that student?" Jansen, who had been standing behind Vader, finally couldn't bear it anymore, lowered his head and said softly, "He's just a very ordinary person."

"Can ordinary people let the 'noble magic genius' use the resources of the magician's tower to deal with him?" Vader said meaningfully: "And... haven't you noticed that this young man translates the ancient elves very quickly?"

Jansen sneered at Roger's performance: "He's just putting on airs. No one can translate the ancient elves so fluently, even those jungle elves who stick to the ancient traditions can't do it."

"Then why did he do this?" Vader's eyes shone with wisdom: "Don't you know that as soon as you hand in the paper, you will be dismantled, and you are just pretending to be a little bit of face? This young man doesn't look like Such a fool."

"This..." Although Jenson could not answer the teacher's question, he still felt that this was just Roger's trickery.

Of course, Wade could hear the disapproving tone of the student's words to Roger, but he didn't point it out. He just ordered lightly: "When the young man finishes writing, bring him his answer for me to see for myself."

Master Vader's words made Jansen slightly startled, but he didn't dare to question the teacher's order, and immediately replied respectfully: "Yes, I will notify those people in the Knight School now."

While the two were talking, Roger had already translated all the ancient elves.What was recorded on this scroll seemed to be a fairy tale belonging to elves, but it was mixed with a strangely pronounced and meaningless word, which made Roger feel a little strange.However, he quickly put this question behind him. The exam only required translation but not comprehension. Now that the translation work was completed, Roger quickly handed over the two scrolls to the teacher.

The two scrolls changed hands several times, and Jenson accompanied Pilk to Vader's hands.The old magician only took a few glances after unfolding the scroll, and his originally smiling expression immediately became serious, and his already white eyebrows furrowed quickly.But the further Master Vader got to the back, the more tightly he frowned, the wrinkles on his old face were all squeezed together, making his face look like a dried out apple.

Seeing Master Vader's expression, Pirk, who didn't know him well, was already happy.The old magician was very dissatisfied with Roger's answer, and was already blowing his beard and staring with anger.Now Pielke just waited for Vader to throw the scroll on the ground angrily, and then say a few comments like "know nothing" and "nonsense", and Roger can be kicked out of the school.Who can have a more authoritative evaluation than Vader, so no one will say that he deliberately suppressed Roger, all of this is simply perfect!

Just as Pilk was planning his wishful thinking, Master Vader suddenly closed the parchment in his hand, raised his head and sighed loudly: "This young man is really an expert in ancient elves, no...it wouldn't be too much to say he is a genius! "

"Ah?!" At this moment, both Jenson and Pirk were stunned.